:00:12. > :00:16.Hello. This is BBC World News. Our top stories: The UN calls it a
:00:17. > :00:20.devastating milestone - the number of refugees who have fled Syria for
:00:21. > :00:22.Lebanon has just surpassed one million.
:00:23. > :00:24.Ukraine's police marksmen blamed for the bloodshed in Kiev- a government
:00:25. > :00:29.report accuses them of killing of protesters.
:00:30. > :00:32.A US soldier opens fire at an American military base - he shoots
:00:33. > :00:37.dead three colleagues and injures 16 others.
:00:38. > :00:40.And, a BBC investigation uncovers how some Ugandans are buying false
:00:41. > :01:05.papers to escape the stigma of being HIV positive.
:01:06. > :01:10.The war in Syria is into its fourth year. The terrifying plight of
:01:11. > :01:13.civilians just gets worse. Any family that can, tries to flee the
:01:14. > :01:17.country. The scale of the humanitarian crisis has been
:01:18. > :01:19.underlined by this: this tragic new and symbolic number. The one
:01:20. > :01:23.millionth refugee fleeing into neighbouring Lebanon has been logged
:01:24. > :01:29.by the UN in the past hour. The UN calls it a devastating milestone.
:01:30. > :01:32.One million new refugees in a country of just four million people.
:01:33. > :01:37.Altogether the UN says a total of 2.5 million Syrians are now
:01:38. > :01:42.registered as refugees abroad. The actual number who have fled is
:01:43. > :01:46.unknown. It's widely thought to be much higher because many are too
:01:47. > :01:49.frightened to register. Millions of refugees have fled in every
:01:50. > :01:59.direction from Syria into neighbouring countries. But Lebanon
:02:00. > :02:03.has taken by far the most. And the UN is struggling to help them. It
:02:04. > :02:06.has received only 14% of the funding it has asked for. Some refugees in
:02:07. > :02:55.Lebanon have told us about their struggles.
:02:56. > :03:00.Well the United Nations have said today that no country has done as
:03:01. > :03:03.much as Lebanon, proportional to their size, in helping with the tide
:03:04. > :03:12.of refugees. With me is Mohamad Yehia from the BBC's Arabic service.
:03:13. > :03:20.How is Lebanon coping? It is under immense pressure, economically. When
:03:21. > :03:25.you have one in four of the population as refugees it puts a lot
:03:26. > :03:32.of pressure on electricity, water, education. Of these million refugees
:03:33. > :03:39.formally registered in Lebanon, there are thousands of children. We
:03:40. > :03:44.have 300,000 children of these refugees who have no schools to go
:03:45. > :03:49.to. Children are working. Girls are getting married at a young age. It
:03:50. > :03:55.is a very grim milestone and picked just. This is in a country where
:03:56. > :03:59.stability everyday is challenged politically and economically. How is
:04:00. > :04:06.the country embracing this enormous potential for instability? Lebanon
:04:07. > :04:15.has suffered from a spill-over from the war. You have Shi'ite Hezbollah
:04:16. > :04:22.are supporting President Assad. And you have Lebanon supporting the
:04:23. > :04:27.armed opposition. It is creating tension in Lebanon and we have seen
:04:28. > :04:30.instability in recent months. It is challenging to cope with the
:04:31. > :04:37.economic, social and political stress this is causing. Given the
:04:38. > :04:43.pressure is on, what there is of this infrastructure and these new
:04:44. > :04:47.camps, and we have seen kids working in the field to earn a small amount
:04:48. > :04:54.of money for their parents to keep going, how is the government of
:04:55. > :04:57.Lebanon coping? The government of Lebanon is pleading to the
:04:58. > :05:04.international and Arab community to help pay for the costs. It is money
:05:05. > :05:09.they want? It is money, Lebanon has lost over $2.5 billion in business.
:05:10. > :05:15.Is this creating a political threat to Lebanon at the moment? The
:05:16. > :05:19.tensions between the factions supporting opposite sides in the
:05:20. > :05:24.Syrian war is escalating. There are lots of efforts to contain this but
:05:25. > :05:29.as long as the Syrian war is going on it is bound to spill over into
:05:30. > :05:35.Lebanon. 1 million, only those who have registered. The potential for
:05:36. > :05:41.this to keep going is tragically enormous? It has been growing, 2012
:05:42. > :05:49.the number was about 20,000. 2013, the number was about 400,000, and
:05:50. > :05:54.now 1 million. 1 million is just the officially registered. You could add
:05:55. > :06:01.a few hundred thousand more. Thanks for the update with that terrifying
:06:02. > :06:05.figure from lemon. -- Lebanon. And you will find plenty more detail
:06:06. > :06:09.and analysis on the Syrian conflict and the humanitarian catastrophe on
:06:10. > :06:12.our website. Go to a special section at:
:06:13. > :06:18.There's been a second strong earthquake just off the coast of
:06:19. > :06:21.Northern chilly. The quake had a magnitude of 7.8. It followed an
:06:22. > :06:26.even more powerful 8.2 quake on Tuesday. A tsunami alert issued for
:06:27. > :06:29.the coast of chilly and Peru has now been lifted. There are no reports of
:06:30. > :06:39.casualties or serious damage. Our world affairs correspondent Nick
:06:40. > :06:42.Childs reports. And understandable reaction as, for
:06:43. > :06:48.a second night, the ground shook severely in northern chilly. This is
:06:49. > :06:51.the result of a powerful after-shock. From hotels and homes,
:06:52. > :06:57.they spilled onto the streets and the siren blasted out a new tsunami
:06:58. > :07:00.alert. Some were more prepared than others and among those forced to
:07:01. > :07:07.flee was the Chilean president who had been visiting to assess the
:07:08. > :07:12.damage on Tuesday's earthquake. TRANSLATION: I was evacuated like
:07:13. > :07:15.every other citizen. We have come to this emergency service to see if we
:07:16. > :07:19.can help. This tsunami warning was quickly
:07:20. > :07:24.lifted and there have been no reports of new damage or injuries.
:07:25. > :07:29.But for the coastal residents it was another sleepless night full of
:07:30. > :07:35.anxiety. Some of the original damage, 2600 homes were damaged and
:07:36. > :07:43.there were reported dead. Chilly is one of the worst earthquake prone
:07:44. > :07:46.countries, but also one of the most prepared.
:07:47. > :07:49.I saw people walking calmly. It is evident they are prepared because
:07:50. > :07:55.they have small travel bugs which will contain a coat and something to
:07:56. > :07:58.eat. There are a lot of people walking about. I think it is good
:07:59. > :08:04.people have had a significant response to the authorities call for
:08:05. > :08:08.preventative evacuation. For the emergency services, a huge task to
:08:09. > :08:15.assess the impact of these major tremors.
:08:16. > :08:23.In the past hour, the Ukraine's new security chief has accused Viktor
:08:24. > :08:29.Yanukovych of mass murder on the streets of Kiev. His comments come
:08:30. > :08:33.as the Ukraine's interim government publishes the first findings of its
:08:34. > :08:36.enquiry into the deaths of protesters in Kiev. Several members
:08:37. > :08:39.of the police squad have been arrested and warrants are out for
:08:40. > :08:50.Viktor Yanukovych and his former security chief. I am joined by
:08:51. > :08:56.someone from the Russian service. You are monitoring this press
:08:57. > :09:01.briefing in Kiev, let's focus on those men we saw in black on that
:09:02. > :09:09.day, the 20th of February firing at protesters. Who were they? These
:09:10. > :09:15.people, riot police who were given orders to shoot at protesters. They
:09:16. > :09:20.say they have evidence when these people were taking these masks off
:09:21. > :09:24.and they know their faces. The two main points which would given at his
:09:25. > :09:32.press conference is that the orders were given to shoot and Viktor
:09:33. > :09:40.Yanukovych yesterday denied he had given any orders. Records were kept
:09:41. > :09:45.of the orders? Yes, this is what we found out today from this press
:09:46. > :09:51.conference. They say they have permission for people to hand down
:09:52. > :09:55.the weapons. So it is only preliminary results and they say
:09:56. > :10:00.they will provide more information as they get it. But another
:10:01. > :10:08.important point which was raised is the role Russia played. What has
:10:09. > :10:14.emerged on the role of Russia? The federal security services, the
:10:15. > :10:21.Federal Security bureau representatives were talking to
:10:22. > :10:24.Ukraine's riot police and a former security chief of Ukraine reported
:10:25. > :10:31.directly to Russia's security services as well. So the explosives
:10:32. > :10:37.and weapons were airlifted into Ukraine, tonnes of it, act Chile.
:10:38. > :10:47.What was their role? They were saying many people, accuse the riot
:10:48. > :10:55.police of the shooting, they are now hiding in Crimea. A lot of the video
:10:56. > :10:59.footage is incredibly vivid. But this question about Russia again.
:11:00. > :11:05.Was Russia involved in what is called in that part of the world,
:11:06. > :11:10.provocation, actively engaging with the Ukrainians? Russia is denying it
:11:11. > :11:17.and they are saying they did not have a say in it. It was a sovereign
:11:18. > :11:22.metaphor for the Ukraine and they did not do anything about it. They
:11:23. > :11:26.always voiced a concern out the rest and they were saying that radicals
:11:27. > :11:35.and even fascists were taking part in this provocation. They were
:11:36. > :11:42.saying it is not a peaceful protest. Russians, they are still saying now
:11:43. > :11:46.that the legitimate president is Victor Yanukovych and they don't
:11:47. > :12:01.want to talk to the new authorities in Kiev. Thank you very much.
:12:02. > :12:13.The US space agency NASA is suspending some work with Russia
:12:14. > :12:18.after what it calls Russia's illegal annexation of Crimea. Three Russians
:12:19. > :12:25.are among the astronauts currently living and working on board.
:12:26. > :12:29.The Kremlin has confirmed Vladimir Putin and his wife have officially
:12:30. > :12:33.divorced. In June last year the couple made this appearance on state
:12:34. > :12:35.television to announce the end by mutual consent of their 30-year
:12:36. > :12:45.marriage. Lyudmila Putina and the couple's two adult daughters have
:12:46. > :12:50.since kept a low public profile. Japan has confirmed it is cancelling
:12:51. > :12:57.its whale hunt. It is after a ruling in the Hague Monday which ruled it
:12:58. > :13:02.illegal. But the fishery ministry in Japan said it will continue what it
:13:03. > :13:07.described as a scientific whaling programme elsewhere.
:13:08. > :13:11.President Obama has said he's heartbroken over a shooting at Fort
:13:12. > :13:13.Hood in Texas, one of the US military's biggest army bases. Four
:13:14. > :13:17.people are dead. This includes the gunman himself. The base commander
:13:18. > :13:20.said there is no indication of any terrorist involvement at this stage.
:13:21. > :13:23.The gunman was an Iraq war veteran who was being treated for mental
:13:24. > :13:27.illness. He turned the gun on himself after being cornered in a
:13:28. > :13:35.parking lot by military police. From Washington, Beth McLeod.
:13:36. > :13:38.The swift response to reports that America's largest or army base was
:13:39. > :13:41.under attack from within... Again. The gunman was a soldier with mental
:13:42. > :13:48.health issues who had served in Iraq. He was using a semi-automatic
:13:49. > :13:52.pistol that he'd bought in the local area. He opened fire in the medical
:13:53. > :13:55.brigade building. With regard to the investigation, at this time there is
:13:56. > :14:00.no indication that this incident is related to terrorism. Although we
:14:01. > :14:06.are not ruling anything out and the investigation continues. Casualties
:14:07. > :14:09.were rushed to this hospital. Most of the injuries were the result of
:14:10. > :14:15.direct gunshot wounds. Some people are being treated for severe cuts
:14:16. > :14:19.from shattered glass. All of those hurt are military personnel. Many of
:14:20. > :14:24.the people there have been multiple tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. They
:14:25. > :14:32.served with valour and they served with distinction. And when they are
:14:33. > :14:34.at their home base they need to feel safe. We don't yet know what
:14:35. > :14:42.happened tonight, but obviously that sense of safety has been broken once
:14:43. > :14:46.again. Broken once again because this event is horribly reminiscent
:14:47. > :14:54.of the mass shooting in Fort Hood in 2009. The worst-ever such event on
:14:55. > :14:58.an army base. 13 were fatally wounded and more than 30 others
:14:59. > :15:01.injured. The self-confessed shooter, Nidal Hasan, an Army psychiatrist
:15:02. > :15:08.about to be deployed to Afghanistan was recently sentenced to death. We
:15:09. > :15:11.will get the facts. And when we have those facts, specifically about Fort
:15:12. > :15:15.Hood, we'll address them. We don't have any choice here but to address
:15:16. > :15:19.what happened. And do everything possible to assure the safety of our
:15:20. > :15:26.men and women who work on these bases. An investigation is underway
:15:27. > :15:29.to find out what motivated this soldier to open fire, but the
:15:30. > :15:33.incident is once again raising questions about how to keep service
:15:34. > :15:34.men and women safe when they are stationed at home in the United
:15:35. > :15:48.States. High alert of the Australian coast.
:15:49. > :15:49.The woman is killed by a shark on her daily swim the beach in New
:15:50. > :16:03.South Wales. Former French presidential candidate
:16:04. > :16:05.Segolene Royal is starting her first full day as the country's new
:16:06. > :16:08.environment minister. The appointment of President Francois
:16:09. > :16:11.Hollande's ex to his new Cabinet also ensures that his personal life
:16:12. > :16:15.remains at the centre of attention, three months after claims of an
:16:16. > :16:20.affair emerged. Alpa Patel reports. She once stood by his side in life
:16:21. > :16:28.and on the political stage. She was the mother of President Holland's
:16:29. > :16:33.four children. But for Mr McCreevy is, she has been wandering the
:16:34. > :16:40.political wilderness. Until now. After being appointed the new
:16:41. > :16:44.environment minister. Translation made
:16:45. > :16:52.TRANSLATION: I am honoured to be appointed to this. She has an
:16:53. > :16:56.impressive CV. Her political career began in 1982 as a junior minister
:16:57. > :17:02.in president Francis -- Mitterrand's government. In 2007,
:17:03. > :17:07.she made each year as the first woman in France to be nominated for
:17:08. > :17:13.the presidency by a major party. She lost to Nicholas are cosy. In 2012,
:17:14. > :17:15.she was noticeably left out of Francois Hollande's Cabinet,
:17:16. > :17:25.reportedly because of his then jealous girlfriend. But following
:17:26. > :17:31.the President's split with France's trio will, she was given the post.
:17:32. > :17:37.It follows the appointment of the new Prime Minister, and popular with
:17:38. > :17:41.the voters and that is important for the Socialist party after they
:17:42. > :17:46.suffered a humiliating defeat at local elections. The challenges lie
:17:47. > :17:51.ahead. The president is one of the most unpopular French leaders in
:17:52. > :18:05.decades. It seems there will be much to discuss when the new Cabinet
:18:06. > :18:08.meets on Friday. This is BBC World News. The latest
:18:09. > :18:11.headlines: The number of refugees who have fled Syria and registered
:18:12. > :18:13.in Lebanon passes one million. The UN calls it a devastating
:18:14. > :18:16.milestone. An investigation by the Ukrainian
:18:17. > :18:18.government has confirmed that police officers did shoot dead
:18:19. > :18:30.anti-government protestors in February.
:18:31. > :18:32.Malaysia's Prime Minister has committed to continuing the search
:18:33. > :18:35.for flight MH370. The airliner disappeared almost four weeks ago.
:18:36. > :18:39.Despite a massive air and sea search, no wreckage has yet been
:18:40. > :18:42.found. Time is running out to find the so called black box flight
:18:43. > :18:46.recorder. It will only emit a locator signal for a few more days.
:18:47. > :18:49.Prime Minister Najib Razak has been at the Australian air force base in
:18:50. > :18:53.Perth, which has been coordinating the current search. Australia's
:18:54. > :19:01.Prime Minister has been there, too. We are here today but our thoughts
:19:02. > :19:04.are thousands of kilometres away. They are in the cities and countries
:19:05. > :19:12.around the world where families of those on board weight feis briefing
:19:13. > :19:19.news. And in the vastness of the Indian Ocean, where MH370 weights.
:19:20. > :19:25.Until we find the plane, many families cannot start to grieve. I
:19:26. > :19:34.cannot imagine what they must be going through. But I can promise
:19:35. > :19:37.them that we will not give up. Little was heard today about the
:19:38. > :19:41.state of the search. Nothing much seems to be discovered.
:19:42. > :19:45.From Perth, our correspondent Jon Donnison has more on the search
:19:46. > :19:48.efforts. There are now ten ships and a
:19:49. > :19:52.British submarine scouring the southern Indian Ocean. Over the past
:19:53. > :19:57.two weeks, there have been almost 100 search flights and still
:19:58. > :20:02.nothing. The cost of the operation is massive. One aviation expert and
:20:03. > :20:08.they told us that the search for the air France jet that crashed over the
:20:09. > :20:14.Atlantic in 2009 cost $50 million. He estimates this could be ten times
:20:15. > :20:18.more expensive. The Australian Prime Minister has been meeting with his
:20:19. > :20:23.Malaysian counterpart in Perth. Mr Abbott called it the most difficult
:20:24. > :20:28.search operation in history. He said that while there was no guarantee of
:20:29. > :20:36.success, he said no effort would be spared. For the moment, no talk of
:20:37. > :20:39.giving up despite the massive cost. But it has now been almost a month
:20:40. > :20:50.since the Malaysian airline disappeared and still no prospect of
:20:51. > :20:53.finding it. An Australian woman is thought to
:20:54. > :20:57.have been killed in a shark attack as she went for a regular early
:20:58. > :21:00.morning swim with friends. Christine Armstrong, aged 63, was swimming at
:21:01. > :21:03.Tathra, south of Sydney, when she became separated from the rest of
:21:04. > :21:07.the group. Her husband reported seeing a large shark in the water.
:21:08. > :21:10.She was a swimming coach and had been swimming in the area where she
:21:11. > :21:18.went missing for 14 years. Police have been searching the area. An
:21:19. > :21:23.independent witness was on the rocks and had seen a large shark in the
:21:24. > :21:31.area. It appeared that the shark was bawling something, although it was
:21:32. > :21:34.unable to tell what. An extensive search has been going on since then
:21:35. > :21:42.involving helicopters, water police, surf life-savers and some
:21:43. > :21:44.local people as well. It was Ian attempts to -- in an attempt to find
:21:45. > :21:51.her. And the search has now been called
:21:52. > :21:54.off due to bad weather. Cases of HIV and Aids are on the
:21:55. > :21:57.rise again in Uganda. That's despite successful prevention and awareness
:21:58. > :21:59.campaigns costing billions of dollars. In a deeply conservative
:22:00. > :22:03.society, there's a huge stigma attached to being HIV positive. It
:22:04. > :22:07.can make it difficult to get a job. So it's little wonder that some
:22:08. > :22:09.people try to buy a fake HIV negative result. A BBC Africa
:22:10. > :22:11.investigation has found they can change hands for as little as 20
:22:12. > :22:25.dollars. Uganda is a young country growing in
:22:26. > :22:31.confidence. But some demons like HIV are proving harder to shake. As you
:22:32. > :22:38.tried around come about billboards everywhere urging people get tested.
:22:39. > :22:44.Despite the long-term campaigns, HIV-positive people still face a lot
:22:45. > :22:50.of stigmatisation. Nicolette has had the virus in she was raped at the
:22:51. > :22:54.age of ten. She has chosen to be open about it. When they hear my
:22:55. > :23:00.story, they tend to point the finger. You went looking for it.
:23:01. > :23:07.They don't actually know, don't understand what somebody goes
:23:08. > :23:09.through. For quite some time I haven't been working because
:23:10. > :23:16.everywhere I go to look for a job, the first thing they ask me is my
:23:17. > :23:21.status. We have discovered that some HIV-positive Ugandans are going as
:23:22. > :23:27.far as breaking the law to hide their status. We sent one of our
:23:28. > :23:33.team undercover to several clinics in Kampala, pretending to be an
:23:34. > :23:49.HIV-positive job-seeker. I need your help.
:23:50. > :23:52.After a quick negotiation, the lab technician agrees to give her
:23:53. > :24:10.negative result for about $20. Getting a fake negative result
:24:11. > :24:17.turned out to be much easier than we thought. We have plenty of them. We
:24:18. > :24:22.went to 15 clinics across Kampala, and 12 were prepared to give us a
:24:23. > :24:29.bogus negative. One woman who bought a fake result agreed to speak to us,
:24:30. > :24:34.but asked that we hide her identity. I had to get a fake result so I can
:24:35. > :24:41.be accepted in this company so that I can feed my child. I know that
:24:42. > :24:46.what I did is illegal. But at least it saved my life. Activists and
:24:47. > :24:50.experts say the stigma is hurting the country's fight against the
:24:51. > :24:58.disease because it can result in HIV-positive people becoming too
:24:59. > :25:02.scared to access treatment. We showed our footage to Uganda's
:25:03. > :25:09.Minister of health. He admitted the government wasn't dealing
:25:10. > :25:17.effectively with the problem. It is a challenge for government and the
:25:18. > :25:24.country to pull up its socks and fixed the problem. Uganda's fight
:25:25. > :25:27.against HIV has been impressive. But unless it tackles the entrenched
:25:28. > :25:32.stigma against those who are infected with the virus, it runs the
:25:33. > :25:35.risk of HIV rates continuing to rise, leaving a large section of its
:25:36. > :25:51.population living in the shadows. Are you surprised by this story? Do
:25:52. > :25:55.you require HIV test results to get a job? We want to hear from you
:25:56. > :25:58.using the hastag FakeHIVtest. We will be discussing these issues and
:25:59. > :26:01.your thoughts throughout the day on BBC World News, culminating with
:26:02. > :26:19.that indepth analysis on BBC Focus on Africa at 1730 GMT.
:26:20. > :26:30.Now me take you to a helicopter shot of the UK.
:26:31. > :26:34.Here in the UK, the arrival of spring usually means a burst of rain
:26:35. > :26:38.showers. Today you're more likely to need a face mask. This is the scene
:26:39. > :26:41.in Central London right now, as record levels of air pollution hit
:26:42. > :26:51.the country. Normally this view would be clear, but you can see just
:26:52. > :26:54.how dense the pollution clouds are. It's all been caused by a
:26:55. > :26:57.combination of dust from the Sahara, low winds, emissions from mainland
:26:58. > :26:58.Europe and everyday pollution. And I can tell you, it's extremely
:26:59. > :27:02.unpleasant.